52nd Annual Stephen C. Smith Memorial Regatta
Be sure to thank our Sponsors, Advertisers and Auction Donors

An American Cancer Society Benefit

April 25-27, 2025


This family-oriented event is held each year at Shell Point Beach on the Gulf of Mexico in Southern Wakulla. Regatta proceeds aid the American Cancer Society (ACS) in memory of Stephen C. Smith, a local sailor who died from a rare form of leukemia at the age of twenty-nine.

View 2025 Event Booklet Looking back at the 50th and 51st anniversary events we are "blown away" from our great fund-raising success. In the last 51 years the Stephen C. Smith Memorial Regatta (SCSMR) Foundation, Inc. (a 501c3 organization) and our generous donors, volunteers, and sponsors have contributed over $600,000.00 toward supporting the American Cancer Society programs. Your contribution to this event helps our community support the fight against cancer and provides educational programs and patient services to your neighbors and families in the Big Bend region of Florida (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla counties.)

The 2025 Regatta event organizers are the Shell Point Sailboard Club and the Apalachee Bay Yacht Club, and numerous businesses and individuals. So, what do we do to continue our momentum for this 52nd event? We are still losing loved ones, friends, and neighbors to cancer. Let us continue to do all we can to support the families impacted by cancer.

Featured at the family-oriented event will be sailboat and windsurfing races, beautiful sights and beach activities for non-racers, a catered dinner Saturday night, and a closing auction on Sunday afternoon.

How Can You Help?

Opportunities


  • Become a Named Sponsor. If you are a continuing sponsor or donor, we thank you. Can we count on you once more this year?
  • Does your employer provide a company match for charitable contributions?
  • Advertise in the Regatta Program Booklet that is distributed prior to, and at the event. Locals often later use the booklet to choose a company to use, providing excellent and lasting exposure.
  • Do you want to make an honorary donation for someone gone too soon?
  • Make a donation to recognize and encourage your survivor.
  • Would you like to volunteer? We are a lot of fun, even when fighting cancer.

To be an important part of the event, contact a SCSMR Official
Andrea Schwendinger Bennett Wright C. Finney
2025 Event Chair SCSMR Foundation President
(850) 321-5350 (850) 668-7700
ads0568@gmail.com wfinney@fsu.edu

Sponsor Opportunities

Presenting Sponsor ($5,000) Sponsor Benefits:
  • Presenting Rights: "The Stephen C. Smith Memorial Regatta brought to you by . . ."
  • 8 Registration Packets*
  • Full-page advertisement in the Regatta program (first choice of placement)
  • Recognition on SCSMR event website, social media and printed publicity materials
  • Corporate logo in a prominent location on the back of T-shirt
  • The deadline date is March 1, 2025 to ensure accurate acknowledgement of your donation in publicity and promotional items

Commodore ($2,000) Sponsor Benefits:
  • 6 Registration Packets*
  • Full-page advertisement in the Regatta program (second choice of placement)
  • Recognition on SCSMR event website, social media and printed publicity materials
  • Corporate logo on the back of T-shirt
Vice Commodore ($1,000) Sponsor Benefits:
  • 4 Registration Packets*
  • Full-page advertisement in the Regatta program
  • Recognition on SCSMR event website, social media and printed publicity materials
  • Corporate logo on the back of T-shirt
Captain ($500) Sponsor Benefits:
  • 2 Registration Packets*
  • Full-page advertisement in the Regatta program
  • Recognition on SCSMR event website, social media and printed publicity materials
* Registration packets include 1 event t-shirt, 1 dinner ticket (catered by Posey's) and 1 Regatta program

Regatta Program Advertising Rates

The deadline date is March 1, 2025 for Ad placement to be included in our memorial regatta booklet.
Full Page $250
Half Page $125
Quarter Page $65
Business Card $35


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You Gotta Regatta!!!!


Saturday night luminarie bags remembering and honoring our loved ones.

  • In Honor of Cristina Tucat
  • In Memory of Steven Graves
  • In Memory of Steven Graves
  • In Memory of Louise Harms and John Webster
  • In Memory of Patricia Madden






Sailing

The Regatta has drawn as many as 200 registered participants and hundreds more spectators from all over the southeast. The event includes: races for yachts rated under the PHRF handicapping system, catamarans such as Hobie Cats, smaller day sailors including Sunfish, and windsurfers, the most numerous and arguably the most colorful participants in the Regatta.

Catamarans and one design day sailors, and small and large (22 feet and over) monohulls will race over their own courses as with the windsurfing fleet. Races and activities for sponsors, spectators and participants are held both Saturday and Sunday depending on fleet/activity (see event schedule).

The public is invited to view the races on Saturday and Sunday, and get lunch at the Regatta Grille. Plan to participate in the Sunday afternoon auction of thousands of dollar's worth of donated items. The auction begins after the trophy presentations (about 2:00 pm). Everyone can have a wonderful time and pick up some great deals while contributing to help fight cancer.





Thank you our many 2024 sponsors, participants and volunteers.
We could not have done it without YOU!



PRESENTING SPONSORS

Mike & Nicole Koski


Mark Powell, PhD



COMMODORE SPONSORS
   

VICE COMMODORE SPONSORS
 
 

CAPTAIN SPONSORS



Adam and Andrea Bennett John and Juliet Stacklyn
Linda Clarke Travel   Vaughan & Lynn Williams
     
     


The Stephen C. Smith Memorial Regatta Foundation, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that presents the regatta annually
for the benefit of the American Cancer Society in memory of Stephen Smith, a local sailor who died from a rare form of leukemia at the age of 29.
The 2024 event organizers are the Shell Point Sailboard Club (SPSC), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Apalachee Bay Yacht Club (ABYC)
and numerous businesses and individuals.

Can't make the Regatta? Then donate directly to the Smith Regatta Foundation.

Apalachee Bay Yacht Club Shell Point Sailboard Club American Cancer Society